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Do you have Instagram or FB or either any other kind of social app?🙋 I am sure right now you are thinking: Well, who does not? So this is how my reflection has started. How many hours do I coscently use my phone? What did I miss in my real life to be on my phone? Now, go simply on your instagram account and check it, you thought you used it less hours right? This is the problem, it just goes like: okay I am just gonna watch a couple of stories and see what my friends are doing, but in reality, you already know that as soon as you open the app, you will surf for at least half an hour.  And when your friends ask you out, you will probably have to deny the invitation for lack of time. But what istead of spending your 3 precedent hours on social, you would have done you chores? The answer is simple, you could now go out and enjoy your self. Now think of another situation: What is the first thing you do as soon as you meet a person in real life or through an app? ...

Good evening everyone! 🙆 Today I want to introduce to you all two different ways to live in a foreign country for a while, exchanging some hours of your day for food and a place where to live. Let'a get started! The two option I am considering are: AuPair program or HelpX. If you are looking forward to take a break from your life in your own country and live a one time life experience abroad you should definitely take in consideration one of these experiences. If you love children , I think the best option for you would be becoming an AuPair, there are different companies as CuluralCare, AuPairworld that you could take in consideration. I am subscrit to AuPairworld platform (I link you here the platform if you are interested to discover more about it I link you here the platform ( https://Aupairworld.com ). The platform is really easy to use and it takes no expence for AuPairs. Are the families that pay the company to subscribe to the platform and find an help with ...

Today I had to realize my High School journey is ended. This morning I woke up as I was going to get to school, but in reality I only drove my brother to the train and than I had to come back home. I got photos from my family group chat and texting wishing everyone good luck for the first school day after summer holidays and I indeed got a message from a teacher saying the same. Was than that I got panicking! If I am not going to High School anymore, how is gonna be my life? How is going to be University, will I like it? Is it the right choice for me? I put beforehand, I always hated High School, never appreciate subjects, being there for 6 hours listening apparently to boring classes and for years I waited for this moment, to finish that nightmare and to be grown up to go to University. But now.. everything is going to be new, I do not know even in which faculty I will go to, and how I will put up with new people. Well I know. I am not the only one living this situation. New plac...

Every person is different and for any reason anyone should ever think to be superior to others. There are shy person which love to be stable and prefer not to move, to do not leave their confort zone and others which love the adventure. As I think most people reading this blog found out I am the second type.. so in this post I am gonna tell you my story and my plans for the future. I always wanted to discover myself new places and a new me, I love to keep discovering myself during my traveling far from everything known. After the exchange year I finished my last high school year over in Italy, which I successfully passed and finished my exams I took a flight to my second home now over in Ireland. This time I decided to stay in a home by myself experiencing also what living alone means. The month has flown as always! I have been working a couple of days a week and I met with my friends over there. That place really feels like my hometown. Arrived there felt like I never left, pe...

I believe happiness differs from person to person but I am sure that everyone needs someone special in  their life. Everyone needs someone to make us feel needed, wanted, desired.. special somehow. Yes, the word special define perfectly how I felt many times in my life. For years I thought I didn't need anyone next to me to be happy, I always thought I was enough for my self. And yes, partly I am enough for myself but during the past few months I understood I  had amazing people around me, there, ready to help and substain me anytime I needed. I never understood their importance until today and I am wondering my self if is it too late now to let them know that. Too late to say how much they mean to me,how much I miss and love them, seems like every thing is flying by and I cannot reach the time. As if memories inside my head will never let me alone whether the moment is passed and it will never come back. Photographs, portrait staring at me as they want to say someth...

The count down to go back in Italy is already started. This experience is almost gone, and I cannot belive it, i remember last year in this period, when I was doing the count downt to come here, to experiece my life, the time was going so slow, I was starting to get ready for the Orientation with the organization for three days, meet the other exchange student, share our feelings, and now, now is just going to be over, to be back to my life, everything will be the same of ever, the same school, the same bedroom, the same streets, everything, the only changed will be me. That's scarry, actually I'm more scared to leave Ireland then when I flought from Italy. When I left I had to build up my life from nothing, and now what's going to be when I'll be back, will be everyting like before? Shall I have to start again my life from nothing, far from the people that make me the person that I am now?

Was a saturday in October, when talking with my host mom, she told me "you won't realize how time will fly, 'till the day of sant patricks day, i'm telling you now" . I'm telling now, this sentence has been true, I don't know how these journey had flown so fast, I just wish that these last few months won't as fast. That's the best experience of my life, this is meaning so much for me, go ahead just with my forces, learn to be more strong and understand myself and making up my character. I honestly think that every adolescent should have the possibility and be brave enought to do this experience, to leave everything and build up a new life in a new city, with new friends and a new "family". My host family is my bless, I cannot imagine my experience with other people, I just love every part of it. I'll never be enough thanksfull to my organization to get me in this family, and gave me an other exchange student with who share my exper...

Is the first year far away in christmas time. When people ask me if I'm going home for the holidays and I answer that I'll stay here and that anyway we are not allow to go home, everyone make a weird face and they start to say: "Oh, I'm so sorry". I want just to say that come here has been my complete decision, that I knew that I can't go home and I have been agree, and I'm so excited to see their tradiction, is just an year, I want to do as much as possible. I won't never have the opportunity to spend my christmass with the people that are here, with the host family and friends. I'm so glad that I didn't listen no one and I left my italian life for this few months. Thanks to the organisation that helped me and found for me this hostfamily that is the best thing that i couldn't wish. For gave me the possibility to meet my host sister that is just so perfect, is like we know each other since we borned. I trust her 110% and she's with me...

Hi there, from today I'll write my posts in english, so you'll can see the improuvment of this experience. I'm here from 50 days , I always feel that my time is going so fast and I can't stop my days, is always friday, I love my weekend, is not that, is just that seems yesterday that I was in the airport and I saw for the first time my hostmother. My english was so bad and was really difficult to undestand others, and now, now thanksfull to everyone here I can undestand them and I can talk with them without problems. For the first period here my favourit word was "sorry?", I can't belive that I'm realizing my dream, that I'm changing myself. I started my volontary job and I love it, I'm always impatient to go there, for my three hours, and to go to my art lesson. Thanksfull to my art class now I can see the different light and I'm most interessed about the nature. I'm not more interessed about the mobile, I'm interessed about wha...

Per anni ho pensato di non essere abbastanza brava nello sport, nell'arte, a scuola e persino nelle lingue... Poi sono arrivata qui, ed è tutto così diverso, provare tutto e scoprire che una parte di te è sempre stata lì, solo da scoprire. E quindi mi chiedo.. è davvero così necessario andare così lontano per scoprirlo? La risposta è sì. Partire, ricominciare, conoscere persone che la pensano diversamente e che non ti conoscono. Farsi conoscere e stringere nuove amicizie, imparare a superare i momenti critici e a dare il giusto peso a ciò che ti accade intorno. Essere pronta a mettere da parte l'imbarazzo e dire ciò che si pensa, saper chiedere scusa quando si sbaglia, saper accettare le critiche costruttive, impegnarsi per migliorare. Ed è quello che sto facendo! Sto dando il massimo qui, sto provando tutto quello che mi viene proposto. Ho iniziato kick box e non avevo mai provato uno sport tanto faticoso ma che allo stesso tempo da tante soddisfazioni, ho iniziato un co...

Allora.. Sono qui da una settimana e non potevo chiedere nulla di meglio, credo che sia stata la scelta migliore che io abbia preso in tutta la mia vita. What about school? Lunedì scorso ho iniziato la scuola qui in Irlanda, sono stata messa nel quinto anno e ho preso come materie Matematica "livello alto" (inizialmente avevo preso quello ordinario ma il programma era davvero molto semplice per cui ho chiesto di cambiare..), francese,home economics, biologia e geografia. La scuola è completamente diversa da quella italiana, sono gli studenti a doversi spostare al termine della lezione e ci sono tutti gli armadietti, per non dover portare libri per nove materie sempre dietro. I ragazzi irlandesi sono molto carini, ci aiutano sempre a trovare le classi in giro per la scuola. Le lezioni iniziano alle 9 e ogni lezione dura 40 minuti, credo che sia meglio rispetto ai 60 minuti, dopo 40 minuti l'attenzione inizia a calare. Durante la pausa pranzo di solito sto con altri exch...

Hello to everybody and welcome ! Stanno continuando ad arrivare le famiglie, sfortunatamente ne mancano ancora molte e la paura di capitare in una famiglia provvisoria inizia a sentirsi. Io non ho avuto di questi problemi ma sento l'agitazione nei miei amici che sono ancora nell'eterna attesa. Mi sento di potervi dare un consiglio: non preoccupatevi se la famiglia tarda ad arrivare, forse è addirittura meglio perché non hai tutto il tempo di farti le tue idee, non ti sembrerà di non essere considerato dalla famiglia, che ti risponderà a monosillabi perché indaffarata. Le famiglie che ospiteranno i weppini che partiranno con me a settembre sono tutte più o meno vicine, concentrate per lo più nei distretti di Galway e di Cork. Nella mia stessa scuola ci sarà un altro ragazzo italiano che partirà con WEP e che ho conosciuto al seminario di preparazione. Tra qualche giorno inizierò a preparare gli scatoloni per partire e a scegliere i regali per la hostfamily da spedire i primi d...

Anche se sembra debbano trascorrere ancora un sacco di giorni, qualche sera fa mi sono resa conto che anche questa estate passerà molto, troppo velocemente e la partenza si avvicina sempre di più. L'ultimo giorno di scuola, volevo dire una cosa ai miei compagni che alla fine non gli ho detto: " Ragazzi mi mancherete dal primo all'ultimo di voi, da quelli di voi con cui parlo poco a quelli con cui vado più d'accordo. Grazie per quello che avete fatto per me in questi tre anni, alla crescita che ho avuto con voi e alle ore trascorse insieme, ai momenti felici e quelli tristi superati da ognuno di noi. Semplicemente grazie di tutto, vi voglio bene. Ci vediamo in quinta!" In questi giorni sto davvero realizzando che partirò, che starò lontano per 10 mesi dai miei amici dalla mia famiglia. Fino a questo momento non ho mai pensato veramente di poter non rivedere qualcuno prima della partenza, invece l'altra sera ero ad una festa di compleanno e quando è stato ora d...

Per diventare a tutti gli effetti un'exchange student, ogni studente deve completare una serie di STEP prima della sua PARTENZA e PERMANENZA nel paese ospitante. Ho partecipato all'incontro informativo della WEP, dove c'era una ragazza che ha frequentato per 10 mesi la scuola in Canada. Ho scelto di cambiare il numero di mesi di permanenza nel mio futuro paese ospitante, inizialmente infatti pensavo di far durare la mia esperienza solamente tre mesi e alla fine dei quali tornare alla mia normalità qui in Italia. Ma una sera mentre stavo guardando i video di alcuni Exchange students ho capito che per vivere a pieno la mia esperienza ho bisogno di vivere li un anno intero per imparare davvero la lingua, per poter creare dei legami con i miei futuri amici e famiglia ospitante,e comprendere a fondo cosa significa farcela da soli. Ho compilato il WEPBOOK, un dossier online in base al quale le famiglie scelgono lo studente straniero da ospitare per il programma, in base agl...